News Release Number: STScI-2008-34

A Celestial Landscape in Celebration of 10 Years of Stunning Hubble Heritage Images

October 2, 2008: The landmark 10th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Heritage Project is
being celebrated with a 'landscape' image from the cosmos. Cutting across a nearby star-forming
region, called NGC 3324, are the "hills and valleys" of gas and dust displayed in intricate detail. Set
amid a backdrop of soft, glowing blue light are wispy tendrils of gas as well as dark trunks of
dust that are light-years in height. NGC 3324 is located in the constellation Carina, about 7,200
light-years away from Earth. This image is a composite of data taken with two of Hubble's science
instruments. Data taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in 2006 isolated light emitted
by hydrogen. More recent data, taken in 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2),
isolated light emitted by sulfur and oxygen gas. To create a color composite, the data from the sulfur
filter are represented by red, from the oxygen filter by blue, and from the hydrogen filter by green.